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My name is Steven Foster, a Microsoft CRM MVP, working at Intergen as the CRM Product and Marketing Manager. I have over 17 years of CRM experience delivering a multitude of CRM solutions across a number of countries. I hope you find my blog interesting!
I am also an entrepreneur reselling the HappyOrNot customer satisfaction service.

I am very fortunate to have been involved right in the beginning of the computer based CRM industry. I was working for Kalamazoo Business Systems PLC in the early 1980’s before the introduction of MS Dos and when the concept of the Personal Computer was really in its infancy. Most companies had large mainframe systems or what was termed mini computers, however no one was doing anything that looked like CRM on these computers at that time. Many companies still ran manual systems for Accounting, Payroll and Cash Book.

Kalamazoo also had a manual Sales Reporting System which had remained unchanged from the mid 1960’s and I was given the task of giving this product a total overhaul as the precursor for the computer based sales management system we were planning. Principally this manual system had a number of quite…